Tournament: Pennsbury | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dominion | Judge:
Current US policy implementations attempt to silence the voices of Muslims in both political and social affairs thus furthering the demeaning qualities that are inherent to today’s society.
Islam Times 2010
{Tuesday, 28 December: Islam Times is an international news organization that delivers diverse and global coverage both political and cultural while also touching on social issues that are not influenced by corporate allegiances
http://www.islamtimes.org/vdcaaeny.49nai1gtk4.html}
American Muslims: The silenced and oppressed voice of the US¶ Islam Times -
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has given speeches across the nation on issues related to policy and theology.
Telling our truths is necessary to them being heard in the community
Sayed 13 (Deonna Kelli Sayed, November 6, 2013,Deonna is a writer and multimedia artist http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2013/11/telling-our-own-truths-the-forward-moving-american-muslim-narrative/)
Muslims desire to exist beyond the political narratives that often enslave us to outdated,
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believing that an audience is out there who will connect with your truth.
Poetry is the best form of performance. Embrace poetry as part of an ambivalence to life itself. It is through poetry and performance that we rationalize ourselves and allow for exposure of us as people because in debate, exposure must be towards another instead of towards oneself for actual representation.
Fernando 10 {writes Jeremy Fernando, The Suicide Bomber and her gift of death, 2010, pg 213 }
The poet, irremediably split between exaltation and vulgarity, between the autonomy that produces
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nothing we can say of her except the fact that she is dead.
We use poetry as a learning tool to construct our own ideas and express ourselves
Nichols 14 {01/02/2014 -“Could Poetry Start an Educational Revolution?”- Travis Nichols is a poet, novelist, and environmental activist. He is the author of Iowa, See Me Improving, Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, and The More You Ignore Me. He works for Greenpeace. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-nichols/could-poetry-start-an-edu_b_4531672.html}
Dorothea Lasky is a force of nature. Not only has she published three full
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a general curriculum through poetry right now? Do you think they should?¶
Muslims in the US face challenges to their religious freedom, which puts the liberty of all at stake.
ACLU no date (American civil liberties union, The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country. https://www.aclu.org/protecting-religious-freedom-muslims)
Most recently, Muslim communities in the U.S. have faced a disturbing
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ACLU will continue to defend the civil rights of everyone in our country.¶
Schools are also a massive part of the society of discrimination towards Muslims because they further oppression in the young minds and set the framework for future silencing.
Jandali 12 (Ameena K. Jandali, director of content for the Islamic Networks Group in San Jose, Calif. “School Administrator” October 2012 Number 9 Volume 69 pg 32-35)
In March 2010, a group called Muslim Mothers Against Violence surveyed 78 Muslim male
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11 America is probably one of the most challenging tasks in human development.Ӧ
The silencing of Muslim voices is still a prevalent quality in today’s society, seen in both political and social standpoints. This societal value that has come to fruition has to be stopped and contested in everyday life because no matter where u go I today’s society Islamophobia follows.
Hasan 2012 {Mehdi Hasan Sunday 8 July 2012, Mehdi Hasan is political editor of the Huffington Post UK and the presenter of al-Jazeera ¬English's The Café. He was a senior editor at the New Statesman and a news and current affairs editor at Channel 4. He is co-author of Ed: the Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/08/muslims-public-life-abuse}
Have you ever been called an Islamist? How about a jihadist or a terrorist
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the Islamophobes win. So, dare I ask: who's with me?
Despite contrary evidence the government set a massive quantity of restrictive policies that silenced the voices of Muslims by characterizing them as terrorists.
Sher 13 {Dena Sher, February 22, 2013, Radically Wrong: Misstated
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Despite evidence to the contrary, the government continues to embrace a theory that adopting
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California, and broad swaths of Latino-American communities in multiple states.
Aamer and I speak about our struggles as Muslims as a means to solve for our voices through the debate space. We advocate to use poetry to access a voice to solve for silence.
The role of the ballot is to act as an educator and advocate for the educational change that comes through speaking within a specific space. The best social change is spurred from the education that students receive because it helps to shape future policies for other generations.
Singer and Pezone No Date {Alan Singer and Michael Pezone, Education for Social Change: From Theory to Practice: Alan Singer is a social studies educator in the Department of Teaching, Literacy and Leadership at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York and the editor of Social Science Docket (a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for Social Studies). He taught at a number of secondary schools in New York City, including Franklin K. Lane High School and Edward R. Murrow High School. He is the author of Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach: A Handbook for Secondary School Teachers (LEA, 2003), Social Studies For Secondary Schools, 3nd Edition (Routledge, 2008), New York and Slavery, Time to Teach the Truth (SUNY, 2008), and Teaching Global History (Routledge, 2011). Michael Pezone- Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management¶ University of California, San Diego¶ Partner Development Manager-Living Goods¶ Technology and Innovation Specialist-FHI 360¶ Strategy Consultant-International Rescue Committee¶ Strategy Consultant-The World Bank¶ Project Manager-The Water Initiative¶ Consultant-GE Energy¶ Business Advisor-Peace Corps- Government Agency¶ Associate Consultant-Celerity Consulting Group, http://louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue5p2/singerpezone.html}
1.3 The first step in improving education is to recognize that the problems
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learn about a topic the entire class “wins or loses” together.
1.25 The student dialogues are highly structured. Pezone believes that structure maximizes student freedom by insuring that all students have an opportunity to participate. It also helps to insure that classes carefully examine statements, attitudes, and practices that may reflect biases and demean community members.